Alabama Baptists help rural areas
August 30, 2007
Alabama Baptists realize the need for rural development in the state, and many of them are helping in various areas. One particular initiative — Sowing
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Farm Bill important for rural development in state
August 30, 2007
Driving around Alabama, one is sure to pass through a small, rural town where the once-thriving downtown stores have boarded-up windows and grass growing up
Poor Alabamians among nation’s food insecure
August 30, 2007
Alabama has deserts — not the dry, sandy kind found out West, but a more troubling kind. Alabama is home to food deserts. These deserts
Farm to School program helps students, farmers
August 30, 2007
As national childhood obesity rates continue rising, schools and farmers have started working together to help students develop healthier lifestyles and eating habits. In 2000,
Breakfast program feeds millions of kids
August 30, 2007
Though providing breakfast isn’t mandatory in Alabama schools, during the 2005–2006 school year state schools served the morning meal to an average of more than
More funding allotted for program in 2007 Farm Bill passed by House
August 30, 2007
It’s been a long time since a deep fryer has cast a shadow in an Opelika school’s lunchroom. “We turned our fryers off in the
Black farmers encouraged by funding provision in House version of Farm Bill
August 30, 2007
Alphonso Hooks and his one full-time employee grow leafy vegetables, watermelon, cantaloupe and corn in rural Macon County. They cut hay and raise around 40
Potential impact on hunger, rural life in Alabama
August 30, 2007
A third-generation farmer in northwest Alabama, James Bates knows no other way of life. “It’s what I know. It was natural for me to stay
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